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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.

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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Tell
Fully
Nature
Dying
Worry
Head
Adequately
Dies
Spot
Funny
Spots
Jobs
Perfectly
Death
Bother

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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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My trade and art is to live.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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